The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-06
OUR FARM BUDGET.
For Farmers Wives = Don't Crowd the
Chicks-Abaut WesdS and Insects.
Germany and the Potato Bug-A Foe to
Grass-Household HInts-Earm aad
STOCK Notes.
FOR Farmers, wives.

Farmers wives are probably az much In
need of money IS any other class of wo-
men. To such. then the dis oveFy OF any
way Of az ding to ,heic pin-mOney IS de-
sirable discovery. While not new thing,
planting small fruits is doubtless new to
great many women who have abundant OPP
portunity 10 try it. That it is fully feRsi-
Bile to great many needs only trial to
prove. q woman writes in the Colorado
Farmer on the subject as below:
Evidently the thing most needed now by
women ''is to learn how to be healthy,
strong, good-tempered and helpful" edu-
eating not only the brain, but also the
whole being as well. All women can not
marry and be the helpless idol of an indul-
gent husband. Some vii not marry, and
many who do must be willing help-meet.
Outdoor work is not to be diSpised by
women, for it IS positively necessary to
health and happiness. OF all the pursuits
now followed by woman there Is perhaps
no other that offers more or greater induce
ments, or for which she is naturally better
qualified, than the gro wing of small fruits.
There IS no more money-maklng crop
than fruit when rightly managed, and
strawberries, Taspberries. gooseberzles, cur
rants and grapes can each be made TO yield
a rich harvest. Only small plot of ground
is necessary for beginning, increasing the
ares as means are afforded.
Almost any woman can do much OF the
work herself, even though lot very strong.
SIZE can set the plants and gather the frat
and get it ready for market. Much de-
ponds On the way it is prepared.
If, in addition to raising fine berries, they
are set of TO advantage by careful packing
and & tasteful arrangement of green leaves,
they will sell more readily. When berries
are cheap she can with her owe hands
make them int jams, jellies, marmaiade,
etc to be sold later even il sold at very
small profit.
Women do not despise the minutest mat
tiers, and the study of the botany Of plants,
of bird, and insects injurious and Cher
wise Will all receive their careful attention.
The example we have had of women who
have tried the experiment. show that they
are emineDtly successful raising the finest
fruit, arranging it IN the most tasteful man
ner and receiving the highest market price
for their producs
The net profits from the safe OF small
fruits by two young ladies in California
last year, one of whom was cOnsum olive
when she began, amounted to the hand
some sum of $l5 coo.
1t is but few years since they began the
experiment, and beside accumulsting 9
fortune, they have what is better, a com
Portable home of their own and complete
restoration to health.
The growing of small fruits on g small
scale is especially recommended to those
married women who can obtain a small
plot Of ground for the purpose, who feel
the desire so common among womsn fol
pecunisTy independence. To the GROWING
of small fruits might be added few stand;
of bees, which almost any woman can care
for. thus adding TO her income and plscina
her 10 position to realize comparative in
dependtnce